# PhishDestroy threat dossier — near-free.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-26 03:11:05 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/near-free.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- TAKEN DOWN (neutralised) Composite threat score: 68/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Wallet/Seed Phishing Targeted brand: across (and: celer, discord, near, reddit, telegram) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 1/93 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: SOCRadar Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 104.21.35.113 (US, San Francisco) ASN: ASAS13335 CLOUDFLARENET, US Hosting org: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Registrar: NameSilo, LLC !!! REGISTRAR INTEGRITY ALERT — NameSilo !!! NameSilo is a registrar documented by PhishDestroy as (1) publicly lying about received abuse reports, (2) shielding a $20M+ Monero-theft operation (xmrwallet.com) for 10 continuous years, and (3) retaliating against PhishDestroy by getting our X/Twitter account @Phish_Destroy banned after we published the evidence. Researchers/victims must ALWAYS CC compliance@icann.org on every abuse ticket — NameSilo has a track record of later claiming reports were never received. Primary sources: https://phishdestroy.io/namesilo-killed-our-twitter https://phishdestroy.io/xmrwallet-namesilo-exposed Registered: 2026-02-21 Expires: 2027-01-13 Page title: NEAR | Blockchains, Abstracted ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: WE1 Status: INVALID chain ## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Status: CLOSED — no report required. This domain was neutralised before the abuse-report cycle could be dispatched — either the hosting provider / registrar suspended it on their own, the DNS went dead, or the operator abandoned the infrastructure. PhishDestroy keeps the evidence bundle on file for audit but no formal notice was sent. ## TIMELINE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Domain registered: 2026-02-21 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-02-26 23:24:08 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-02-26 23:24:08 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-26 04:21:05 UTC Neutralised: 2026-04-23 04:16:58 UTC Current status: taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead) ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019bbd22-40ec-714c-9899-a28e5106eb5a/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/near-free.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.near-free.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=near-free.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/near-free.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/near-free.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-24 23:16:13 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] near-free.com Fake Across Alert The domain near-free.com was registered on February 21, 2026 through NameSilo, LLC and subsequently resolved to the IP address 104.21.35.113, which belongs to the Cloudflare network (AS13335) located in the United States. The site presented a page title of "NEAR | Blockchains, Abstracted" and was classified under the scam type "Wallet/Seed Phishing," indicating an attempt to harvest cryptocurrency wallet credentials or seed phrases. A Gridinsoft trust assessment assigned the domain a score of 0 out of 100, reflecting a high confidence in malicious intent. The SSL certificate associated with the site is identified as "WE1," confirming that the domain was served over HTTPS. VirusTotal analysis recorded a single detection out of 93 security vendors, suggesting at least one vendor flagged the domain as malicious. The domain was also listed on one external security blocklist and was actively blocked by the PhishDestroy mitigation service. Current infrastructure checks show the domain is offline, having been taken down after detection. Threat actors appear to target the brand "Across," as indicated by the impersonation label in the intelligence feed. Defenders should ensure that near-free.com is added to deny‑list rules across DNS filtering, proxy, and endpoint protection systems, monitor for newly registered domains that resolve to the same Cloudflare IP range, and watch for similar page titles or wallet‑seed phishing indicators. Continuous re‑evaluation of related threat‑intel sources is recommended to detect any resurgence or variant campaigns that reuse the underlying infrastructure or branding cues. ## SCORING METHODOLOGY ---------------------------------------------------------------- Composite score is NOT derived from VirusTotal alone. PhishDestroy aggregates: - VirusTotal positive ratio - Public blocklist consensus (MetaMask, ScamSniffer, OpenPhish, PhishTank, URLhaus, CryptoFirewall, SEAL, Polkadot, Enkrypt, Phishunt, DiscordPhishing, PhishingDB) - Cloaking detection (HTTP 666 or rendering delta between bot and real visitor) - DNS-filter consensus (Quad9, CleanBrowsing, NextDNS, AdGuard, Cloudflare, etc.) - AlienVault OTX pulses + Cloudflare Radar + Google Safe Browsing - URLScan / URLQuery verdicts - Brand-impersonation heuristics (DOM analysis of forms, logos, wording) - Known phishing-kit fingerprinting (favicon hash, JS obfuscation signatures) - Wallet-drainer family classification (Angel, MS, Rainbow, Pink, Inferno, ...) - Free-TLS vs paid-cert ratio (throwaway infrastructure signal) - Registrar/hosting abuse history (this registrar's track record) - Human researcher sign-off (operator takedown team) A domain present in our database is ALREADY flagged. A low VT count by itself does NOT mean the domain is safe — new scam domains routinely show 0/95 VT for their first 7–30 days while actively draining wallets. Always cross-reference the composite score and the individual indicators above, not just VT. ## CORRECTIONS / APPEALS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Full HTML report: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/near-free.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=near-free.com Appeal a flag: https://phishdestroy.io/appeals/ (responded to within 48 hours, FP rate <0.01%) Submit a report: https://t.me/PhishDestroy_bot About PhishDestroy: independent open-source threat-intelligence platform. Tracked: 194,854 domains (64,488 alive under monitoring, 128,816 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io